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Srijata Bhatnagar - Speaker Profile

​Srijata is an international speaker and author of Setback Leadership. Srijata Bhatnagar is a professional speaker, a life coach and an entrepreneur. She has inspired more than 10,000 people through her talks, one-to-one coaching, videos and quotes. The fact that she was initially an employee and then turned entrepreneur helps her see both sides of the coin. With more than 20 years of experience (building two businesses, speaking professionally and coaching numerous companies and individuals), she is a repository of transformational knowledge.

​Srijata has been through various kinds of setbacks in her life, thanks to her inquisitive nature, her circumstances and her start-up experiences. Given the nature of her work, she meets and works with leaders from many industries – leaders who have also been through setbacks.

Srijata shares her unique, empowering and powerful points of view with her audiences. She delivers her message and coaches people through engaging real-life stories, amusing incidents, embarrassing self-deprecating humour, personal life experiences, and at times, even a narration of painful setbacks. Her forte lies in guiding businesses and individuals to rise beyond their fears, doubts and limiting beliefs and achieve holistic success in their respective professions and lives. No wonder she is an expert in the area of Setback Leadership.

Srijata is known as the “Iron Lady who can cry”, too. Be sure to ask her why she got this name. There is a fascinating story behind it!

Srijata had worked in MNCs such as Oxford University Press, ESPN as well as Startups like BharatMatrimony and Sulekha, early in her career. She founded two startups, that gave her the taste of setbacks and later success. She has authored five books and spoken at global stages physically and virtually. ​

Srijata holds a Dual Degree PGDBA(India), MBA(USA) from Southern New Hampshire University. She also completed an entrepreneurship course from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB). She is an NLP master practitioner and advanced life coach from ANLP International. She is a strong believer of life-long learning.

Speaking Topics

SETBACK LEADERSHIP
How a business leader can turn their setbacks into successes to optimize their full potential at their workplace and in life.

Duration: Flexible (Min 30 mins to Max 5-6 hours)
Format: Keynote / Masterclass / Workshop / Coaching
Brief: 
Do you notice a sudden dip in the performance of your Rockstar leader? Or some of your employees are scraping through? They may be going through a challenge that is much more severe than it looks on the surface!

A perfectly normal leader’s performance may turn southward due to a professional or personal setback they are facing. But the same setback could be the turning point for them to write a different kind of leadership style of their own, when they know how to turn their setbacks into their successes.

In her talk, Srijata will share some of the technique’s world leaders from various walks of life use to turn their setbacks into their successes and how your leaders and employees can too.

Outcomes:
  • Participants start looking at a setback as an opportunity for exponential growth and performance, instead of a roadblock.
  • They learn to fast track their growth using challenges as a propeller.
  • They identify and learn to use the tools and techniques that will turn their challenges into success.
  • They learn to take step-by-step self-guided actions and stop looking for external solution providers.
  • They believe that they are invincible setback leaders and stop feeling like victims.
  • Finally, your organisation can create a driven and confident set of employees who are ready to perform to their full potential, no matter what challenges they are presented with.

​Who should attend:
Leaders who need to deal with different kinds of business, performance and team related challenges.

SECOND CHANCE!
How can a women leader leverage their day-to-day challenges to propel them towards personal and organizational success?
Duration: Flexible (Min 30 mins to Max 5-6 hours)

Format: Keynote / Masterclass / Workshop / Coaching

Brief: 
In today’s diversified world, it has become even more important that organisations have a fair diversity in their workforce, especially at higher levels. In such a situation, women should be able to utilize the same challenge as an advantage for organisational and personal growth. But how?

What if they were equipped with tools, techniques and strategies that help them turn this challenge to their favour and help them speed up their professional growth? Would it propel them towards higher goals and excellence, giving your organisation the ability to become diverse and at the same time nurture the unique talents and capabilities of them?

Through her exclusively designed program, Srijata works on helping women identify the ways they can make their presence felt. She also teaches them the tools that help them leverage the setbacks in a way that helps them succeed from the challenges they face.

Outcomes: 
  • Participants have an increased sense of awareness about their challenges and start looking at these as opportunities for excellence, instead of hindrances of growth.
  • They learn how to use their challenges as a propeller for professional and personal growth.
  • They identify and learn to use the tools and techniques that help them sensitize others about women’s challenges and capabilities.
  • They learn to take step-by-step self-guided regular actions and stop looking for an external problem solver. 
  • They start converting their unfavourable circumstances into favourable ones, making them the true setbacks leaders.
  • Finally, you have a happier and diverse workforce who are driven and invincible.
Who should attend: 

Women leaders of the organisation, ideally who are thought to be struggling with discrimination of any kinds and because of which they find it difficult to grow.